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Deutscher Post-Almanach, V. 2Preserve for the Future – $350 This is a series of four palm sized books written in German. Each begins with a portrait of the King of Wurttemberg, whose kingdom predates the German Empire. (The Kingdom of Württemberg existed from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1805, to the end of World War I, in 1918.) The volumes we have...Read More |
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Deutscher Post-Almanach, V. 3Preserve for the Future – $350 This is a series of four palm sized books written in German. Each begins with a portrait of the King of Wurttemberg, whose kingdom predates the German Empire. (The Kingdom of Württemberg existed from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1805, to the end of World War I, in 1918.) The volumes we have...Read More |
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Deutscher Post-Almanach, v. 10Preserve for the Future – $350 This is a series of four palm sized books written in German. Each begins with a portrait of the King of Wurttemberg, whose kingdom predates the German Empire. (The Kingdom of Württemberg existed from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1805, to the end of World War I, in 1918.) The volumes in the...Read More |
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Die Eroberung der Luft IIBuild and Access the Collection – $400 This second volume of a German publication of aircraft cigarette cards album has most of the aircraft cards in place, as well as a detachable paper airplane model ready for assembly. Published in 1932, it covers a range of international aircraft then in service. Read More |
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Die Spinnen AmerikasBuild and Access the Collection – $8,400 The Russian Count Eugene von Keyserling (1833-1889) spent his career in the natural sciences specializing in spiders. His publications focus primarily on the spiders of North and South America, and Die Spinnen Amerikas constitutes his magnum opus, describing hundreds of species new to science. It...Read More |
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Die Textilien aus PalmyraBuild and Access the Collection – $250 The ancient city of Palmyra was, for a number of centuries, an important trading center for materials transported across the Silk Road to and from many points in Asia and the Middle East. Much of our current understanding of silk in antiquity comes from the study of material from Palmyra. This...Read More |
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Die Versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirges von Wettin und Lobejun im SallkreiseBuild and Access the Collection – $2,400 This book by Germar (1786-1853), a professor of mineralogy at the University of Halle and the director of its mineralogical cabinet/museum, focuses on fossils discovered in Saxony, constituting some of the earliest fossil material described in Europe. It is of considerable importance to...Read More |
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Dineh Bizad, Navaho, His LanguagePreserve for the Future – $450 This small 4 x 6 inch handbook written by Presbyterian missionary Frederick G Mitchel is “ . . the fruit of a sincere desire to help those who seek a working knowledge of the Navaho language.” It includes an alphabet with English sound words, conjugated verbs, an English-...Read More |
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Discours Sur la Structure des Fleurs, Leurs Differences et l'Usage de Leurs Parties....Build and Access the Collection – $4,125 This short publication by a little-known botanist gave Linnaeus the diagnostic tools and the anatomical terminology for his sexual system of classifying plants. After studying botany under Tournefort at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Vaillant (1669-1722) established a herbarium there and showed...Read More |
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Diseases and Enemies of PoultryBuild and Access the Collection – $250 While he graduated with a degree in agriculture at Cornell, it was summer work on combating contagious diseases in cattle that led to Dr. Leonard Pearson’s (1868-1909) interest in veterinary medicine. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school, Dr. Pearson continued his...Read More |
